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Brush For Beauty

SING a brush, for beauty!

Our grandmothers would have been horrified at the very thought.

women are

Yet to-day, when better looking and younger looking than ever they were, good brush- work counts for such a lot. ir that is regularly brushed is the smartest and healthiest, and re Your same applies to complexions.

skin ennnot be really clean nor your make-up well-groomed without the ald of at least two brushes.

Most of un nowadays use a com- plexion brush to remove strplus powder and tidy up the face gener-. lly. After powder has been pressed on to the skin with a large soft puf, the brush spreads it evenly und leaves a soft natt surface with no hint of patches and caking. It pre- vents that "scrubbed on look that badly made-up faces have.

But the other complexion brush loes even more valuable work. Skin speclulists tell us that many men have excellent healthy skins because of the simulating massage-rifect of their shaving brushes. The nellon of the bristles stire up the sluggish glands and nerves beneath the skin; the soap and warn water whirled round is the brush cleans the face as nothing else can. Hence there i are fewer men than women who reach middle-age with double chinas and sugging face contours. Regular Facial Treatment

As a result of this, nowaday beat- ty specialists are advocating regular facial treatments with sonpedi

brush. It Is excellent for greasy and rather heavy skins, if you use a special siin brush and a renily good superfatted or cream soup. Once a week is enough for the aver- age complexion; twice it your skin is very oily.

Una tepid venter only and work up very nikt lather. Brush with a! circular, movement for About a minute, then wash off very thorough ly with warm water. Never allow the soap to dry on your skin, and Complete the stimulation by brush Finish with the brush dipped in cold water to close the porus.

Face brushing is best done at night after the skin has been cleansed with

Monday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 19, 1938.

Hair IS

3.

IS Coming

Down at the Back

Countess Hungwitz- Re- entlow favours this style -wings taken off the side of the face and an out- turned roll curl at the back.

"SALT SERVICE” :

CALT wilt elgar a fire required for

grilling. It will also stop smoke und blaze if sprinkled on anything that is burning.

Copper articles should be cleaned with lemon juice and salt. This will remove any verdigris.

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To remove stains from baths and wash-basins, rub with dry suit bo fore cleaning in the ordinary way.

Choked sink pipes can be cleared by pouring boiting salt water down.

good quality cold cream. Wine When soup has been over-salted. off the excess and then begin work peeled and halved potato. This with soap and brush. Pay particu- will absorb the surplus salt.

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lar attention to the crevices where dust and blackheads gather of the chin ind sides of the nose, but worksame careful day-time make-up, and generally in un outward, semi-rolary it will repay you well with smooth motion, Rinse in clear water

If it has a and youthful beauty. then dry by patting.

a special never coarse sallow look, let it have rubbing,

brush cleansing of its own about once a week, with a final applica- tion of a mild astringent instead of

Whatever you do, don't forget your neck. Give it the same brush cold water. treatment, the same cleansing, the

A. D. C.

HESE hair styles have a special significance at a time when hairdressers

are being asked whether the Edwardian style is a permanency. Mayfair experts now believe that even the return of the 'pleture' dress} will not see the Edwardian colițure universally adopted.

The bias - WAPE cut (above)

which softeas short back hair contours- the side hair taken up vad off face. Coiffure by Emile, who holds the royal war- rant for Queen Elizabeth's hair-dressing.

On the left in a hair- dawn-the-back style, which will be a future ¿qque. The Ride hair is faken up and twined over the head. Back hair curled in Victorian ringlets, with short curls on brow-top.

Christmas

CHRISTMAS gifts this year

combine

economy

and

novelty with the practical.

BATH CONFETTI, colourful as it rounds. Resembles tinted cachous in a container with cork base and lid, for bathroom convenience. Produces a foam and colours the bath exotic- ally.

Coloured BATH COMPACT FLOWERS which dissolve into foam on contact with water, and are ar- ranged like a pusy in a circular silver box.

"NIGHTIE" CASES take the shape of supercilious satin dogs, with silk- fringed cars und feet.

Serving the same purpose arc dolls daintily clothed in checked taf- feta crinolines and poke bonnets, an amazed inquiring expression in their blue eres.

HOT-WATER-BOTTLE

COVERS

have achieved a new importance ih Paris, where wool Polar bear cub and fluffy chicken are

among the

Hair will not stay up at the back, except on the few it really favours, those with slender throats and well-shaped heads. It Involves too much time in the busy woman's day and takes a hair-dresser ten to fifteen ex-latest designs. tra minutes to comb out and arrange after setting.

DOLLS seem to have followed fa- shion. The Victorian doll, thirty inches in height, complete with Side hale and the hair which tops quaint silk dress, many petticoats the brow, however, will continue to find parasol, may take the honours take up. There will be more soft. Elizabeth doil has a fresh party frock in popularity; while the Princess fan-like forehead, fringes, but

in palest pinks. heavy ones.

not

Hair falling softly in the nape of the neck marks a complete reversal of the page-boy era, which has lasted. because it stayed so lidly sleek.

than

CHANGING STYLE ·

HANGE over hair-style after 71 shampoo rather between shampoos, to avold bruised sensation to scalp. Soft broken-up curls, even ring-harm the hair, but Insert

Sleeping In pinned-up hair will not lets, will emphasise many feminine pointed slightly

pins heads before the New Year.

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We try to make it easy

for you to buy your

CHRISTMAS Gifts

HERE ARE A FEW ITEMS from ouR: COMPREHENSIVE

RANGE OF MOST APPROPRIATE GIFTS

PERFUMERY

BY ALL THE FAMOUS

MAKERS

WORTH

GIRDLES, BELTS, HANDKERCHIEFS,

GLOVES, SCARVES, STOCKINGS, HATS, SHOES, UNDERWEAR, ETC., ETC.

pricking scalp.

outward to oveld

When encouraging natural wave, been study your parting. Hair nearly al- at on oblique angle. ways grows of Kent, Start the wave at an angle at which few who har starts out from parting. If it

The ringlets version has adopted by the Duchess though she is one of the

can look charming with an Edwar-falls slightly forward, the first wave dian coiture and often adopts it.

should be coaxed to come towards brow, then taken buck.

If hair falls back from parting. Lake Arst wave back, then bring for- The diest way to dispose of long ward on to brow, Similarly with

now gone

short curls on top of head.

side-pieces which have

If hair refuses to respond to pin- upward is to roll and twine them control use combs, but place them on top of the head.

before curling' ends of hair over, so that they are not too obvious.

Back hair in Victorian type two- Inch long ringlets-centre front hair in short eurls. This is quite simple to comb and arrange once "set."

Nail Biting

When taking up the hair merely for an evening or special occasion, wired velvet bows in black, or in use combs to which are attached

ribbon to match your gown.

In

Children

How To Cure It:

NAIL biting is an unpleasant habit which in time becomes a menace

to health.

Fingers are frequently dirty; and pieces of nails, it swallowed, are Ilable to irritate the stomach and bowels. Persistent biting may lead to breaks in the akh, with the entry of germs and a septic finger.

Nail-biters are frequently shunned by other chudren. A quite usuni outcome of this is on Inferiority complex with marked nervous- ness, mainly witchings, dreams and nightmares.

Do not delay corrective measures. Keep the malls short and give the child a manicure set with directions on using it. Stimuinté o wish to have well-kept nails like its parents.

Improve the general health by increased (outdoor exercise and ade- quate nourishing food and encourage congenial companions who are not nall biters.

Children should wear wishable gloves in bed, while during the day their nails should be painted with something unpleasant, yet harmless, such as aloes,

Cures are often hastened by having a dentist fit metal caps to the back teeth to proyent the front ones closing fightly. These should not be worn longer than necessary, otherwise the teeth will decny.

Occasionally, it may be advisable to consult a psych-therupist with a view to hypnotle treatment.

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